Michael Walsh
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Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh Liverpool born Irish poet and writer traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. Michael’s paternal family background is Moville, Donegal, his maternal Wexford and Tipperary. Michael's father, Patrick, had fought in four conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. As a 18-year old guerrilla a reward was placed on his head by England’s Black and Tans. He also fought in the Irish War of Independence, Spanish Civil War, and RAF during World War Two.
On leaving school at 15 years of age Michael spent ten weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness. During his years at sea he was to visit over 60 countries. Michael has since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded 'Writer of the Year' by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest circulation free newspaper. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 60 book titles.

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Do you think the Leftist tyranny that has enveloped us is a recent thing? Think again. by Michael Walsh DURING THE 68 years of Soviet terror London’s Westminster and the banking community’s Square Mile could best be described as partners in perfidy. Soviet leaders were applauded by Britain’s elite…
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by Michael Walsh “Several wartime personalities would end up agreeing on the value of the 2.5-ton US Studebaker-manufactured truck as the one important logistical innovation that really won World War 2 for the Allies and more than any other single weapon of the conflict.” AN IRONY of history is that…
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UNAVOIDABLY, a shifty-eyed hag grasping 12 pieces of silver as she passes her Rhodesian child to a pimp comes to mind when I write about Britain’s betrayal of Rhodesia. Ironically, it is the daughter whose quality of character was once attributed to her deceitful stepmother. By 1977, the world had largely…
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by Michael Walsh OCCASIONALLY I AM asked if there was anything in particular that caused me to sympathise with the Workers’ Reich. There were several reasons but I have to say I was initially influenced by the experiences of British servicemen. When I first served on a British merchant ship, my…
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by Michael Walsh AFTER THE DEFEAT of the Workers’ Reich the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union notoriously thieved everything they could lay their hands on. The Allies’ motto; ‘If it moves steal it; if it can’t be moved, blow it up’. Ships can be moved: In November 2015, the Renegade…
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by Michael Walsh NOTHING BETTER illustrates the deviousness of media than their stories of art allegedly looted by the ‘Nazis’. The camera doesn’t lie; to television viewers and the media’s trusting readership photographic evidence of German wickedness appears undeniable. The media’s poison-pen…
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by Michael Walsh COMMEMORATIONS of the life of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) are ongoing. Britain’s “mainstream” media ignore them all. Perhaps this is understandable, since the space scientist’s pioneering V-1 and V-2 rockets once caused panic…
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by Michael Walsh I MAKE NO apologies for spurning the pomp and pageantry that bull-horns Remembrance Sunday. There is much about war that knows no political or national boundaries; war is a monument to human frailty, not strength. In an individual sense war is universal as is the suffering. The last…
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The amazing, powerful, masculine poetry of Robert Service by Michael Walsh POETRY LOVERS are people who prefer their musings in colour to their thoughts in black and white. All reading matter penetrates; some hardly brush the skin but poetry reaches parts that others cannot reach. Robert Service,…
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by Michael Walsh I CONCEDE that hindsight and experience are the best teachers of all. An integral and loyal member of the British Empire, Rhodesia’s contribution to her mother country during the Boer War, the Great War, and World War II was remarkable. Yet today Rhodesia, since renamed Zimbabwe, symbolises…
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